Carotid Disease: Follow that Bruit

Carotid Disease: Follow that Bruit

Erica Camargo Faye, MD, MMSc Assistant in Neurology, MGH Stroke Service Associate Inpatient Medical Director, Department of Neurology Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School



Disclosures

Neither I nor my spouse has a relevant financial relationship with a commercial interest to disclose.



Internal Carotid Artery Stenosis

? Location

? Extracranial ? Intracranial

? Etiology

? Atherosclerotic ? Non-atherosclerotic

? Dissection ? FMD ? radiation vasculopathy ? Inflammatory ? Moyamoya



Carotid Stenosis

? Location

? Extracranial ? Intracranial

? Etiology

? Atherosclerotic ? Non-atherosclerotic

? Dissection ? FMD ? radiation vasculopathy ? Inflammatory ? Moyamoya



Carotid Stenosis

? Prevalence

? > 50% stenosis: 7% women, 7-9% men ? 75-100% stenosis: 1.1% women, 2.3% men ? Risk factors:

? Male sex ? Hypertension ? Diabetes ? Cholesterol ? Smoking ? CAD, vascular disease ? Alcohol use (men)

Brott TG et al. Circulation 2011; Fine-Edelstein JS et al. Neurology 1994; O'Leary DH et al. Stroke 1992;

Naylor, AR et al. Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg 2018.



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